Swiss researchers have released futuristic designs for attachable modular aircraft that will allow passengers to board a plane at a railway station and disembark at their destination without ever setting foot in an airport
http://www.reuters.com/video/2...eo?videoId=243468978
It actually looks pretty cool
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That is quite intriguing. Talk about thinking outside the box! 
Very cool.
Chris
Very George Jestony or 1950's Disney Futuramaish vision.
But...
It moves passenger security responibility to the railroad station. You just get to do all that fun stuff at the station rather than the airport.
Looks nice and easy in computer simulation form, but there's all that silly mechanical stuff to lift, connect and secure the "train" to the aircraft. That's all going to add time and delays.
Other than the "cool" factor, I don't see any advantage.
Rusty
Its like having extra fuel tanks on the old planes, hope when the release the tanks everyone is safe.
This idea is completely absurd. Passenger modules have to be pressurized and the slightest damage to the structure would endanger not only the passengers but the aircraft and other modules. Exposing a module to the rigor of rail service, to include vibration and fatigue, and then placing the module on an aircraft without a time-consuming engineering inspection is not practicable.
This idea is completely absurd. Passenger modules have to be pressurized and the slightest damage to the structure would endanger not only the passengers but the aircraft and other modules. Exposing a module to the rigor of rail service, to include vibration and fatigue, and then placing the module on an aircraft without a time-consuming engineering inspection is not practicable.
And they'll probably hit flying cars trying to beat them to the airspace...
Rusty
Guys,
This idea is great but it will completely upset the airport baggage handlers, the TSA currently at airports, the taxi drivers and it will beef up security in train stations.
It is a bold concept but I imagine it will not catch on because of how connected we already are to our cars and roadways.
Nice concept though!
Mike Maurice
Besides if it is flying, it is a airplane not a train. I'll stick to what is really a airplane Thank you.
wow... how friggin' lazy will people eventually get. why not just pick up my bed with me still in it in the morning and deliver it to a hotel across the country later in the day.
This idea is completely absurd.
Yes. Next somebody will try to tell us that we'll computers that fit on desktops and that we'll have portable phones............
hmmm, an interesting solution to population control... bombs away! 
This idea is completely absurd.
Yes. Next somebody will try to tell us that we'll computers that fit on desktops and that we'll have portable phones............
This "flying train" concept is one of those "solutions in search of a problem" like the moving train platform from 2 years ago:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/24/....html?iref=obnetwork
https://ogrforum.com/t...ving-train-platforms
Rusty
I'm still waiting for flying cars.
I'm still waiting for flying cars.
George Jetson has betrayed us!
Jerry
Flying trains?? I was picturing "Action Chugger"....
http://images2.wikia.nocookie....57/ActionChugger.png
Flying trains?? I was picturing "Action Chugger"....
lol I was thinking Doc Brown....
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